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SA409 - Social Security Policies(Michaelmas Term 2017/18)

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CORE BOOKS (2 items)

Social Security and welfare: concepts and comparisons - Walker, Robert, 2005Book | Suggested for Student Purchase

Understanding social security: issues for policy and practice - Millar, J., 2009Book | Suggested for Student Purchase

OTHER USEFUL GENERAL BOOKS (6 items)

Social security in global perspective - Dixon, John E., 1999Book | Essential

How social security works: an introduction to benefits in Britain - Spicker, Paul, 2011Book | Essential | basic introductory level and strictly UK related.

Welfare benefits and tax credits handbook - Child Poverty Action Group (Great Britain),2003/04-2005/2006

Journal | Essential | Comprehensive, technically detailed but strictly UK related

Social protection, economic growth and social change: goals, issues and trajectories inChina, India, Brazil and South Africa - 2013

Book | Essential

Social protection for the poor and poorest: concepts, policies and politics - Barrientos,Armando, Hulme, David, University of Manchester, Chronic Poverty Research Centre, 2008

Book | Essential

Good times, bad times: the welfare myth of them and us - John Hills, 2015Book | Essential | UK FOCUSED

JOURNALS (5 items)

The journal of poverty and social justice - 2010-Journal | Background

Fiscal studies: the journal of the Institute for Fiscal Studies - Institute for Fiscal Studies(Great Britain)

Journal | Background

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International social security review - International Social Security AssociationJournal | Background

International labour review - International Labour OrganisationJournal | Background

Journal of social policy - Social Administration Association (Great Britain)Journal | Background

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS (4 items)

International Labour Office: www.ilo.org/public/english/protection

International Social Security Association: www.issa.int

World Bank: www.worldbank.org/poverty

Social security programs throughout the world at: www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/

UK GOVERNMENT (1 items)

Department of Work and Pensions: www.dwp.gov.uk (At the top of the Home Page click on'Publications' and you can the access Research Reports and other materials)

OTHER UK ORGANISATIONS (5 items)

Joseph Rowntree Foundation: www.jrf.org.uk

Child Poverty Action Group: www.cpag.org.uk

Institute for Public Policy Research: www.ippr.org.uk

Institute for Fiscal Studies www.ifs.org.uk

PSE -UK web-site: www.poverty.ac.uk

Week 2: Aims and Objectives (7 items)

Social security and welfare: concepts and comparisons - Robert Walker, 2005Book | Essential | See-Chapter 2 'Aims and Objectives'

Social Protection, Marginality, and Extreme Poverty: Just Give Money to the Poor? - DavidHulme, Joseph Hanlon, Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos

Chapter | Essential

Chapter 15 of Losing ground: American social policy, 1950-1980Chapter | Essential

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Chapter 16 of Losing ground: American social policy, 1950-1980Chapter | Essential | See-Chapter 15 and 16, e-reading of chapter sixteen linked.

pp. 227-236 of Losing ground: American social policy, 1950-1980Chapter | Essential

Chapter 1 'Defining Poverty'Chapter | Essential

Good times, bad times: the welfare myth of them and us - John Hills, 2015Book | Essential | See-Chapter 9 'Conclusion: Britain's Misunderstood Welfare State'

Week 3: Systems and Principles (5 items)

Chapter 4, 'Social Security' in Social policy in the modern world: a comparative textChapter | Essential

The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions,Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries - Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme, 1998

Article | Essential

Means-tested and universal approaches to poverty: international evidence and how the UKcompares - D. Gugushvili, D. Hirsch, 2014

Document | Essential

Extending social security in developing countries: a review of three main strategies - EinarOverbye, 2005-10

Article | Essential

From the Moral Limits of Markets to the Moral Limits of Welfare - KATHERINE CURCHIN,2016-01

Article | Essential

Week 4: Working Age (6 items)

Chapter 10 'Economic Efficiency' of Social security and welfare: concepts and comparisonsChapter | Essential

Chapter 4 'why work must be enforced' in Beyond entitlement: the social obligations ofcitizenship - L. Mead

Chapter | Essential

Work Enforcement in Liberal Democracies - TANIA RAFFASS, 2016-07Article | Essential

The living wage - Donald Hirsch, Laura Josefina ValadezMartinez, 2017

Book | Essential | Read The meaning, origins and development of a living wage,’

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Combating In-Work Poverty in Continental Europe: An Investigation Using the Belgian Case- IVE MARX, JOSEFINE VANHILLE, GERLINDE VERBIST, 2012-1

Article | Essential

Realising potential - Paul GreggDocument | Essential

Week 5: Children (5 items)

Chapter 9 'Target efficiency' of Social security and welfare: concepts and comparisonsChapter | Essential

Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty-World Bank PolicyResearch Report - A. Fiszbein, et al., 2009

Document | Essential

Sticks or carrots? Conditional cash transfers and their effect on child abuse and neglect:Researchers observe both benefits and harms of CCT programs - Keetie Roelen,, March2014

Article | Essential

Welfare realities: from rhetoric to reform - Mary Jo Bane, David T. Ellwood, 1994Book | Read Reducing poverty by reducing welfare,’ Chapter 5

Child Maintenance and Social Security Interactions: the Poverty Reduction Effects in ModelLone Parent Families across Four Countries - CHRISTINE SKINNER, DANIEL R. MEYER, KAYCOOK, MICHAEL FLETCHER, 2017-07

Article

Week 6: Reading Week (No Seminar)

Week 7: Disability (7 items)

Rethinking Disability Policy - 2011Document | Essential

Rethinking the work capability assessment - Ben Baumberg, Jon Warren, KayleighGarthwaite, Clare Bambra, 2015

Document | Essential

Chapter 4 of Help Wanted?: Providing and Paying for Long-Term CareChapter | Essential

OECD (2010) ‘Executive Summary and Policy Conclusions,Webpage | Read Pages ’ pp.9-19

Benefits conditionality for disabled people: stylised facts from a review of internationalevidence and practice - Ben Baumberg Geiger, 2017-06-26

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Article | Read Pages 107-128

Economy and Disability - 2013-08Article | Read pp.321-333

Estimating the additional cost of disability: Beyond budget standards - LauraWilkinson-Meyers, Paul Brown, Robert McNeill, Philip Patston, Sacha Dylan, Ronelle Baker,2010-11

Article

Week 8: Pensions (7 items)

Chapter 2 'Core purposes of pension systems' in Reforming PensionsChapter | Essential

MAINTAINING INCOMES AFTER WORK: DO COMPULSORY EARNINGS-RELATED PENSIONSMAKE SENSE? - PHIL AGULNIK, 2000

Article | Essential

The Inverting Pyramid: Pension Systems Facing Demographic Challenges in Europe andCentral Asia, Overview Report

Document

Old Age Pensions, Poverty and Dignity: Historical Arguments for Universal Pensions - N.Kildal, S. Kuhnle, 2008-08-01

Article | Essential

What has fairness got to do with it? Social justice and pension reform - K House, 2004Article | Essential

Reforming pensions: principles, analytical errors and policy directions - Nicholas Barr;Peter Diamond

Article | Essential

Melbourne Mercer Global Pension IndexDocument | Read Chapters 1, 2 and 4

Week 9: Gender and Social Security (6 items)

Chapter 12, 'Individualization and Social Change' in Social security and welfare: conceptsand comparisons

Chapter | Essential

The Individualised Worker, the Gender Participatory and the Gender Equity Models inSweden - Barbara Hobson, 2004-1

Article | Essential

Challenges and Risks of Individualisation in The Netherlands - Trudie Knijn, 2004-1Article | Essential

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From social security to individual responsibility (Part Two): Writing off poor women's workin the Welfare Reform Act 2009 - Emily Grabham, Jenny Smith, 2010-03

Article | Essential

Does non-employment contribute to the health disadvantage among lone mothers inBritain, Italy and Sweden? Synergy effects and the meaning of family policy - SaraFritzella, , , Francesca Vannonib, 1, , Margaret Whiteheadc, , Bo Burströma, , GiuseppeCostad, , Stephen Claytonc, , Johan Fritzelle, f,, March 2012

Article | Essential

The Effect of Employment on the Mental Health of Lone Mothers in the UK Before and AfterNew Labour’s Welfare Reforms

Article | Read pp 763-791.

Week 10: Migration and Social Security (5 items)

Chapter 6, 'Progressive Dilemmas' of The British dream: successes and failures of post-warimmigration

Chapter | Essential | On moodle as e-reading.

Earned Citizenship: Labour Migrants’ Views on the Welfare State - MONIQUE KREMER,2016-07

Article | Essential

Welfare States and Immigrant Rights - Diane Sainsbury, 2012-08-30Book | Essential | See-chapters 1 and 2 (and any of the country material, if you are

inspired).

The impact of welfare systems on immigration: An analysis of welfare magnets as apull-factor for asylum seekers and labour migrants - N. Schulzek, 2012

Document | Essential

Migrants' Social Rights, Ethnicity and Welfare Regimes - ANN MORISSENS, DIANESAINSBURY, 2005-10-4

Article | Essential

Week 11: The Future of Social Security (5 items)

Chapter 13, ‘Globalization and internationalism' in Social security and welfare: conceptsand comparisons

Chapter | Essential

Universal Basic Income: An idea whose time has come? - H. Reed, S. Lansley, 2016Document | Essential

Could a 'citizen's income' work? - Donald Hirsch, March 2015Document | Essential

Changing social equality: the Nordic welfare model in the 21st century - 2012Book | Essential | See-chapters 1 & 10.

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World Social Protection Support 2014/2015: Building Economic Recovery, inclusivedevelopment and social justice - International Labour Organization, 2014

Document | Essential | See-chapter 6, 'Expanding Social Protection'

TOPIC 1 AIMS AND GOALS (29 items)

SOCIAL SECURITY

Social Security and welfare: concepts and comparisons - Robert Walker, 2005Book | Background | Chs 1,2,7

Beveridge Report - Social Insurance & Allied ServicesWebpage | Background

Journal of Poverty and Social JusticeArticle | Background | no. 3 - issue on 'A century of National

Insurance' - articles by Bradshaw, J. & Bennett, F.; Thane, P; and Lynes, T.

POVERTY

A Davis, D Hirsch and M Padley (2014) A Minimum Income Standard for the UK in 2014,York:JRF downloadable from www.jrf.org.uk

World poverty: new policies to defeat an old enemy - Peter Townsend, David Gordon, 2002Book | Background

Cabinet Office (2010) State of the Nation Report: Poverty, worklessness and welfaredependency in the UK, London: Cabinet Office.http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/state-of-nation-report.aspx

Signs - Fraser, NancyGordon, Linda, 1994Journal | Background | Fraser, N. and Gordon, L. (1994) 'A genealogy of dependency:

Tracing a keyword of the US welfare state'

Chapter 1 of Social security in global perspectiveChapter | Background

Good times, bad times: the welfare myth of them and us - John Hills, 2015Book | Background

POVERTY-CONCEPTUAL

A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY—A REJOINDER TOPROFESSOR AMARTYA SEN - PETER TOWNSEND, 1985

Article | Background

C Goulden and C D'Arcy (2014) 'A definition of poverty', York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/Definition_of_Poverty_full.pdf

The international analysis of poverty - Peter Townsend, Michael Harrington Center for

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Democratic Values and Social Change, 1993Book | Background

POOR, RELATIVELY SPEAKING - AMARTYA SEN, 1983Article | Background

Poverty - Ruth Lister, 2004Book | Background

Understanding poverty - Peter Alcock, 2006Book | Background

A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY: A REPLY TOPROFESSOR PETER TOWNSEND - AMARTYA SEN, 1985

Article | Background

POVERTY-EMPIRICAL

Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) (Annual) Households Below AverageIncome. London: The Stationery Office (available online from DWP website)

H Glennerster et al., One hundred years of poverty and policy, 2004, Joseph RowntreeFoundation Available at www.jrf.org.uk

Dependency culture: the explosion of a myth - Hartley Dean, Peter Taylor-Gooby, 1992Book | Background

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK (annual) - Chris Belfield, IFSDocument | Background

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK: Report of the National Equality Panel -National Equality Panel, 2010

Document | Background | Available from the CASE website.

Poor People in Rich Nations: The United States in Comparative Perspective - TimothySmeeding, 2006-03

Article | Background

Social policy in a cold climate: Policies and their consequences since the crisis - RuthLupton, Tania Burchardt, John Hills, Kitty Stewart, Polly Vizard, 2016

Book | Background

State of the Nation Report: Poverty, Worklessness and Welfare dependency Dependency inthe UK - Cabinet Office, 2010

Document | Background

Growing unequal?: income distribution and poverty in OECD countries - Organisation forEconomic Co-operation and Development, c2008

Book | Background

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TOPIC 2 SYSTEMS AND PRINCIPLES (15 items)

Chapter 13 - Millar_2009_TaxCredits_USS_Chp13.pdfDocument | Background

Social Security and welfare: concepts and comparisons - Robert Walker, 2005Book | Background | Chs 4,5,9 in R. Walker

Social Security in the 21st century - Eric R. Kingson, James H. Schulz, 1997Book | Background

Social security and social change: new challenges to the Beveridge model - Sally Baldwin,Jane Falkingham, 1994

Book | Background | S Webb, 'Social insurance and poverty alleviation

Social Assistance in Oecd Countries - I. Gough, J. Bradshaw, J. Ditch, T. Eardley, P.Whiteford, 1997-02-01

Article | Background | Journal of European Social Policy

Journal of Social PolicyJournal | Background | J Hills, ‘Heading for Retirement? National Insurance, State

Pensions, and the Future of the Contributory Principle in the UK’

Social Insurance and the Contributory Principle: A Paradox in Contemporary British SocialPolicy - Jochen Clasen, 2001-12

Article | Background | Clasen, J (2001) ‘Social insurance and the contributory principle:A paradox in contemporary British social policy’

Equality and Income Security in Market Economies: What's Wrong with Insurance? - LouiseHaagh, 2006-08

Article | Background

Insecurity and welfare regimes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America: social policy indevelopment contexts - Ian Gough, Geoffrey D. Wood, 2004

Book | Background

Historical Origins of a Welfare-State Regime: Unemployment Protection in Japan,1919-1949 - H. M. KRAMER, 2013-01-01

Article | Background | Social Science Japan Journal

International Circumstances as Factors in Building a Welfare State: Welfare Regimes inEurope, Japan and Korea - Shogo Takegawa, 2009-11

Article | Background | International Journal of Japanese

The three worlds of welfare capitalism - Gøsta Esping-Andersen, 1990Book | Background

Hybrid or Unique?: the Japanese Welfare State Between Europe and America - G.Esping-Andersen, 1997-08-01

Article | Background

Beyond European Welfare Regimes: Comparative Perspectives on East Asian Welfare

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Systems - Kwon, Huck-ju, Huck-ju KwonArticle | Background

Equality and Income Security in Market Economies: What's Wrong with Insurance? - LouiseHaagh, 2006-08

Article | Background

TOPIC 3 UNEMPLOYMENT AND LOW PAY (26 items)

Understanding social security: issues for policy and practice - J. Millar, 2009Book | Background | See chapters 11 and 13 (by Wright and Millar, respectively)

(2006) One hundred dogs and 94 bones - Centre of Full Employment and Equity, 2006Document | Background

Low-skill jobs or jobs for low-skilled workers? An analysis of the institutional determinantsof the employment rates of low-educated workers in 19 OECD countries, 1997-2010 - A.Abrassart, 2015-05-01

Article | Background

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE (4 items)

Social Assistance and EU Poverty Thresholds 1990-2008. Are European Welfare SystemsProviding Just and Fair Protection Against Low Income? - K. Nelson, 2013-04-01

Article | Background

The Great Wake-Up Call? Social Citizenship and Minimum Income Provisions in Europe inTimes of Crisis - Sarah Machal et al.

Article | Background

The (Non-) Effect of Unemployment Benefits: Variations in the Effect of Unemployment onLife-Satisfaction Between EU Countries - Jan Eichhorn, 2014-10

Article | Background

Supporting jobseekers: How unemployment benefits can help unemployed workers andstrengthen job creation - Ekkehard Ernst, 2015-07

Article | Background

WELFARE TO WORK AND WORKFARE (15 items)

Comparing workfare programmes – features and implications in 'An offer you can'trefuse': workfare in international perspective

Chapter | Background

The ethics of welfare-to-work - Hartley Dean, 2007-10-29Article | Background

WELFARE SANCTIONS AND CONDITIONALITY IN THE UK - Watts B. et al.Document | Background

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Reshaping Welfare States and activation regimes in Europe - Martín, María Paz Martín,2008

Article | Background

Reforming labour market policy in Germany - Hinrichs, KarlArticle | Background

Assessing the policy trajectory of welfare reform in Australia - Marston, GregArticle | Background

Beyond the workfare state: labour markets, equalities and human rights - Mick Carpenter,Belinda Freda, Stuart Speeden, 2007

Book | Background

Europe's new state of welfare: unemployment, employment policies and citizenship -Jørgen Goul Andersen, 2002

Book | Background

From welfare to work: lessons from America - Lawrence M. Mead, Dee Cook, Alan Deacon,Institute of Economic Affairs. Health and Welfare Unit, 1997

Book | Background

Creating an opportunity society - Ron Haskins, Isabel V. Sawhill, c2009Book | Background

Unsocial Europe: social protection or flexploitation? - Anne Gray, 2004Book | Background

Is 'making work pay' effective for the 'unemployable'? The impact of benefit sanctions onsocial assistance recipients in Denmark - A. Diop-Christensen, 2015-05-01

Article | Background

WELFARE SANCTIONS AND CONDITIONALITY IN THE UK - Watts B. et al.Document | Background

Sanctions within Chapter heading conditional benefi t systems - Julia Griggs, Martin Evans,December 2010

Document | Background

Working on Welfare: Findings from a Qualitative Longitudinal Study Into the LivedExperiences of Welfare Reform in the UK - RUTH PATRICK, 2014-10

Article | Background

MINIMUM WAGES AND WAGE TOP-UPS (4 items)

The ‘Living Wage’: The right answer to low pay? - Fran Bennett, Ruth Lister, February 2010Document | Background

More than a Minimum - Resolution Foundation, 2014Document | Background

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From Housewives to Independent Earners: How the Tax System Can Help Women to Workin a Context of Strong Familialism - FRANCESCO FIGARI, 2015-01

Article | Background

Low pay and in-work poverty: Preventative measures and preventative approaches - AMcKnight, K Stewart, S Mohun Himmelweit, M Palillo, 2016

Document | Background

TOPIC 4 CHILDREN (26 items)

Understanding social security: issues for policy and practice - J. Millar, 2009Book | Background | T Ridge, Chapter 9 in J Millar (ed.), Understanding Social Security

Reducing Child Poverty with Cash Transfers: A Sure Thing? - Armando Barrientos, JocelynDeJong, 2006-09

Article | Background | A Barrientos and J “Reducing child poverty with cash transfers: Asure thing?” Development Policy Review, Vol 24 No 5, pp537-552

CHILD POVERTY IN THE UK (4 items)

D Hirsch, What will it take to end child poverty? 2006, Joseph Rowntree Foundation JRFwebsite www.jrf.org.uk

Towards a more equal society?: poverty, inequality and policy since 1997 - John Hills, TomSefton, Kitty Stewart, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009

Book | Background | K Stewart ‘”A scar on the soul of Britain”: Child poverty andopportunity under New Labour

Childhood poverty and social exclusion: from a child's perspective - Tess Ridge, 2002Book | Background

A New Approach to Child PovertyDocument | Background

COSTS OF A CHILD (2 items)

R Dickens, V Fry and P Pashardes (1995) The cost of children and the welfare state. JosephRowntree Foundation Social Policy Research No 89. Available from:http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/SP89.asp.

The costs of a child in a low-income household. - Oldfield, N and Bradshaw, J, 2011Article | Background

FAMILY INCOME AND SPENDING ON CHILDREN (7 items)

Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation inSouth Africa - Duflo, Esther, 2000

Article | Background

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Purse or wallet?: gender inequalities and income distribution within families on benefits -Jackie Goode, Claire Callender, Ruth Lister, Policy Studies Institute, c1998

Book | Background | J Goode, C Callender and R Lister, Purse or Wallet? Genderinequalities and income distribution within families on benefits

Expenditure patterns post-welfare reform in the UK: are low-income families starting tocatch up? - Paul Gregg; Jane Waldfogel; Elizabeth Washbrook

Webpage | Background

Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom ChildBenefit - Shelly J. Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak and Terence J. Wales, 1997

Article | Background

WHO BENEFITS FROM CHILD BENEFIT? - LAURA BLOW, IAN WALKER, YU ZHU, 2012-01Article | Background

Does money affect children’s outcomes? - Kerris Cooper; Kitty StewartWebpage | Background

Child Support Grants in South Africa: A Pathway to Women's Empowerment and ChildWell-being? - LEILA PATEL, TRUDIE KNIJN, FRITS VAN WEL, 2015-04

Article | Background

BENEFITS AND TAX CREDITS FOR CHILDREN (6 items)

A Comparison of Child Benefit Packages in 22 Countries - Document.pdfDocument | Background

A framework for comparing social protection in developing and developed countries: Theexample of child benefits - Ingrid Esser, Tommy Ferrarini, Kenneth Nelson, Ola Sjöberg,2009-01

Article | Background

A share of new growth for children? Policies for the very young in non-EU Europe and theCIS - K. Stewart, M. C. Huerta, 2009-05-01

Article | Background

Inequality and poverty re-examined - Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright, 2007Book | Background | Chapter 10

Making work pay, making tax credits work: An assessment with specific reference tolone-parent employment - Jane Millar, 2008-04

Article | Background

P Townsend, The Abolition of Child Poverty and the Right to Social Security: A Possible UNModel for child benefit? Lulu Enterprises, April 2008. Available fromhttp://www.lulu.com/content/2299240

CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS (5 items)

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From Social Safety Net to Social Policy?Document | Background

The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean -Sudhanshu Handa, Benjamin Davis, 2006-09

Article | Background

Save the Children (2009) Lasting Benefits: The role of cash transfers in tackling childmortality,June 2009. Available from http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_8358.htm.

J Riccio et al (2010) 'Towards reduced poverty across generations: Early findings from NewYork City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program'. MDRC Report, March 2010.http://www.mdrc.org/publication/toward-reduced-poverty-across-generations

Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: Progresa/Oportunidades, Mexico'sConditional Transfer Programme - Maxine Molyneux, 2006-08

Article | Background

TOPIC 5 DISABILITY AND SICKNESS (21 items)

Chapter 12 'Sickness, Incapacity and Disability' in Understanding social security: issues forpolicy and practice

Chapter | Background

Being and becoming: social exclusion and the onset of disability - Tania BurchardtDocument | Background

Chapter 4 'Disabilty and Poverty' of Understanding povertyChapter | Background

Chapter 9 'Out of the labyrinth? The disability system unpacked' of Understandingdisability policy

Chapter | Background

Introduction: Towards Convergence - Disability Policies in Europe - Van Oorschot, W.;Hvinden, B., 2000

Article | Background

European Disability Strategy 2010-2020: A Renewed Commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe- EU, 2010

Document | Background

Disability and poverty: A survey of World Bank Poverty Assessments and implications -Jeanine Braithwaite, Daniel Mont, 2009-7

Article | Background

Disability and Social Safety Nets in Developing Countries, World Bank Social ProtectionDiscussion Paper Series, No 0509. - Sophie Mitra, May 2015

Document | Background

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EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT AND INCAPACITY BENEFITS (7 items)

Dismantling the Poverty Trap: Disability Policy for the Twenty-First Century - DAVID C.STAPLETON, BONNIE L. O'DAY, GINA A. LIVERMORE, ANDREW J. IMPARATO, 2006-12

Article | Background

Exploring disability - Colin Barnes, G. Mercer, 2010Book | Background | Especially chapter 6.

Social security, employment and Incapacity Benefit: critical reflections on - Chris Grover,Linda Piggott, 2007-12

Article | Background

Sickness benefits in a polarised labour market - Davidson, JacquelineArticle | Background

Why are Swedes sick but Finns unemployed? - Helka Hytti, 2006-04Article | Background

Fit for Work - 2013-01-01Article | Background

Disability benefit reform in Great Britain from the perspective of the United States -Zachary A. Morris, 2015-01

Article | Background

COSTS OF DISABILITY (2 items)

Comparing incomes when needs differ: equivalisation for the extra costs of disability in theUK - Asghar Zaidi; Tania Burchardt

Document | Background

The Development of Direct Payments in the UK: Implications for Social Justice - SheilaRiddell, Charlotte Pearson, Debbie Jolly, Colin Barnes, Mark Priestley, Geof Mercer, 2005-1

Article | Background

CARERS (4 items)

Paying the price: carers, poverty and social exclusion - Marilyn Howard, Child PovertyAction Group (Great Britain), c2001

Book | Background

Do Welfare Benefits Affect Women's Choices of Adult Care Giving? - S. Sarasa, 2007-07-18Article | Background

Informal caregiving and well-being in Europe: What can ease the negative consequencesfor caregivers? - E. Verbakel, 2014-12-01

Article | Background

Citizen Carer: Carer's Allowance and Conceptualisations of UK Citizenship - BENEDICT E.

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SINGLETON, GARY FRY, 2015-07Article | Background

TOPIC 6 ELDERLY PEOPLE AND PENSIONS (21 items)

Pensions - Michael J. Hill, 2007Book | Background

Understanding disability policyDocument | Background | S McKay, ‘Reforming pensions: investing in the future’, Ch 10

in J Millar

Chapter 7 of The economics of the welfare stateChapter | Background

Ageing and development - Rob Vos,Jose Antonio Ocampo, Ana Luiza Cortez, 2008

Book | Background | A Cortez et al, ‘Old age income security’, Ch 5

Understanding the finance of welfare: what welfare costs and how to pay for it - HowardGlennerster, 2009

Book | Background | H Glennerster, ‘Financing income security’, Ch 7

Journal of Social PolicyJournal | Background | J Hills, ‘Heading for retirement? National Insurance, state

pensions and the future of thecontributory principle in the UK’

Towards a more equal society?: poverty, inequality and policy since 1997 - John Hills, TomSefton, Kitty Stewart, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009

Book | Background | M Evandrou and J Falkingham, ‘Pensions and income security inlater life’, Ch 8

From Beveridge to Turner: Demography, Distribution and the Future of Pensions in the UK- John Hills, 2006

Article | Background

Making Social Policy Work, Essays In Honour of Howard Glennerster - Hills, JohnBook | Background | J Hills, ‘Pensions, public opinion and policy’, Ch 11

Pension reform: a short guide - N. A. Barr, Peter A. Diamond, N. A. Barr, 2010Book | Background | Principles and Policy Choices

Pensions Commission, Challenges and Choices (2004) UK Govt Collection 42 (14314) andPensions Commission, A new pension settlement for the 21st century, (2005) and HD7106.G7 N53. Both at http://www.pensionscommission.org.uk/publications

Department of Work and Pensions (2011) A State Pension for the 21st Century, Cm. 8053 -

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Ageing and pension reform around the world: evidence from eleven countries - GiulianoBonoli, Toshimitsu Shinkawa, 2005

Book | Background

Social security programs and retirement around the world: fiscal implications of reform -Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007

Book | Background

Old-age income support in the 21st century: an international perspective on pensionsystems and reform - Robert Holzman, Richard P. Hinz, Hermann von Gersdorff, 2005

Book | Background

Understanding social security: issues for policy and practice - J. Millar, 2009Book | Background

Averting the old age crisis: policies to protect the old and promote growth - World Bank,1994

Book | Background

Pension Reform Primer: Issues, Challenges, Options and Arguments in Pension ReformDocument | Background | (set of notes and papers updating 1994 findings): can be

found through Google, all resources available online.

Trends and Determinants of Work-Retirement Transitions under Changing InstitutionalConditions: Germany, England and Japan compared - DIRK HOFÄCKER, HEIKE SCHRÖDER,YUXIN LI, MATTHEW FLYNN, 2016-01

Article | Background

Pension reforms in Chile and social security principles, 1981-2015 - Carmelo Mesa-Lago,Fabio Bertranou, 2016-01

Article | Background

Expanding economic protection to the elderly in Latin America - Rafael Rofman, IgnacioApella, Evelyn Vezza, 2015-01

Article | Background

TOPIC 7 GENDER (13 items)

Gender equality in the welfare state? - Gillian Pascall, 2012Book | Background | esp. Chapter 6 on 'Gendered income'

Introduction to social security: policies, benefits, and poverty - John Ditch, 1999Book | Background | Chapters 8 and 9 (by McLaughlin and Craig respectively)

The 'Feminisation of Poverty' and the 'Feminisation' of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room forRevision? - Chant, Sylvia1 s.chant@lse.ac.uk, 2008

Article | Background

Social security and social change: new challenges to the Beveridge model - Sally Baldwin,

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Jane Falkingham, 1994Book | Background | (esp. Chapters 2, 6 and 14 by Lister, Land and Joshi

& Davis).

Gender and the welfare state: care, work and welfare in Europe and the USA - Mary Daly,Katherine Rake, 2003

Book | Background | (esp. Chapter 6)

Independent benefits for men and women: an enquiry into options for treating husbandsand wives as separate units in the assessment of social security - Peter Esam, RichardBerthoud, 1991

Book | Background

Christine Hallett (ed.), Women and Social Policy: An Introduction, Prentice Hall/HarvesterWheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1995 vii + 208 pp. paper £12.95. - Norma Daykin,1996-10

Article | Background | (esp. Chapters 2 and 4 by Nasir and Millar respectively).

Citizenship: feminist perspectives - Ruth Lister, 2003Book | Background | (esp. Chapter 7)

Social policy: a critical introduction : issues of race, gender and class - Fiona Williams,1989

Book | Background

Poor women in rich countries: the feminization of poverty over the life course - Gertrude S.Goldberg, 2010

Book | Background

Squaring the circle? Means Testing and Individualisation in the UK and Australia - JaneMillar, 2004-1

Article | Background

Lone parents, poverty and work: policy approaches and lessons from aboard - Rowlingson,Karen

Article | Background

Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policies towards Lone Parents - Trudie Knijn,Claude Martin, Jane Millar, 2007-12

Article | Background

TOPIC 8 MIGRATION AND ETHNIC BACKGROUND (15 items)

Preview of Changing social equality : the Nordic welfare model in the 21st century[WorldCat.org]

Webpage | Background | Finseraas, H (2012) ‘Anti-immigration attitudes, support forredistribution and party choice inEurope’

Roberts, S. and Bolderson, H. (1999) 'Inside out: Migrants' disentitlements to socialsecurity

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benefits in the EU', in Clasen, J. (ed.) Comparative Social Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.[copy on Moodle].

Racism, ethnicity, and social policy - Ian Law, 1996Book | Background | (esp. Chapter 2).

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Social Cohesion and Redistribution? - François Levrau, PatrickLoobuyck, 2013-01

Article | Background

Older people's experience of proactive welfare rights advice: qualitative study of a SouthAsian community. - Moffatt S; Mackintosh J, 2009

Article | Background

The ethics of migrant welfare - Hartley DeanWebpage | Background

The fiscal impact of immigration in OECD countries - OECDArticle | Background

'Poverty and income maintenance’ in Understanding 'race' and ethnicity: theory, history,policy, practice - I. Law

Chapter | Background

The Ethics of Welfare Provision for Migrants: A Case for Equal Treatment and theRepositioning of Welfare - HELEN BOLDERSON, 2011-4

Article | Background

Even in Sweden: The Effect of Immigration on Support for Welfare State Spending -Maureen A. Eger, 2010

Article | Background

Conceptualisations of Welfare Deservingness by Polish Migrants in the UK - DOROTAOSIPOVIČ, 2015-10

Article | Background

How portable is social security for migrant workers? A review of the literature -Nurulsyahirah Taha, Karin Astrid Siegmann, Mahmood Messkoub, 2015-01

Article | Background

Work-related Conditionality and the Access to Social Benefits of National Citizens, EU andNon-EU Citizens - ISABEL SHUTES, 2016-4-15

Article | Background

Migrant access to social security and healthcare: policies and practice. EuropeanCommission. - European Commission, 2013

Document | Background

The stigma of claiming benefits: a quantitative study - BEN BAUMBERG, 2016-04Article | Background

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TOPIC 9 ADMINISTRATION, STIGMA AND CONTROL (16 items)

Understanding social security: issues for policy and practice - J. Millar, 2009Book | Background | Chapters 6, 14, 15 and 16 (by Carmel & Papadopoulos, Stafford,

Wright, Finn and Hudson respectively)

Social Security and welfare: concepts and comparisons - Robert Walker, 2005Book | Background | Chapters 5, 9 and 11 in Walker, R.

Risk, Trust and Welfare; Peter Taylor-Gooby (Ed.). Macmillan Press (now known as PalgravePublishers Ltd), Basingstoke, UK, 2000, ISBN 0 333 764 935 (16.99) - Gavin Wood, 2001-6

Article | Background

Mabbett, D. and Bolderson, H. (1998) 'Open and shut cases: Contrasting systems of benefitdelivery in five countries', Benefits 23, pp. 5-9 - [copy on Moodle]

Administering welfare reform: international transformations in welfare governance - PaulHenman, Menno Fenger, 2006

Book | Background | (mainly Chapters 2 and 12)

The ethics of welfare: human rights, dependency and responsibility - Hartley Dean, 2004Book | Background | Chapter 6 (by Dean and Rogers) from Dean, H

The managerial state: power, politics and ideology in the remaking of social welfare - JohnClarke, Janet Newman, 1997

Book | Background

Hernandez, V. et al. (2004) Take-up of Welfare Benefits in OECD Countries: A Review of theEvidence, OECD www.oecd.org/dataoecd/60/30/30901173.pdf

Social security and social control - Hartley Dean, 1990Book | Background

Social security and social control - Hartley Dean, 1990Book | Background | Social security: The income maintenance business

Cheating welfare: public assistance and the criminalization of poverty - Kaaryn S.Gustafson, 2011

Book | Background

Street-level bureaucracy: dilemmas of the individual in public services - Michael Lipsky,c1980

Book | Background

Journal of Social Policy - VAN BERKEL, RIKVAN DER AA, PAUL, 0151Journal | Background | 'Activation work: Policy programme administration or

professional service provision?'

Australian Welfare Reform: From Citizenship to Supervision - Sheila Shaver, 2002-08Article | Background

Constructing Inequality: Deserving and Undeserving Clients in Austrian Social Assistance

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Offices - CARINA ALTREITER, BETTINA LEIBETSEDER, 2015-01Article | Background

The stigma of claiming benefits: a quantitative study - BEN BAUMBERG, 2016-04Article | Background

TOPIC 10 THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY (16 items)

Social Security and welfare: concepts and comparisons - Robert Walker, 2005Book | Background | Chs 10,12,13 in R. Walker, Social Security and Welfare: Concepts

and Comparisons

Extending social security in developing countries: a review of three main strategies - EinarOverbye, 2005-10

Article | Background

One hundred years of poverty and policy - One_hundred_years_of_poverty.pdfDocument | Background | Piachaud, D. 'The restructuring of redistribution', in

Glennerster, H., Hills, J., Piachaud, D. and Webb. J.

Reinventing social security worldwide: back to essentials - Vladimir Rys, 2010Book | Background

Building decent societies: rethinking the role of social security in development - PeterTownsend, International Labour Organization, Palgrave Connect (Online Service), 2009

Book | Background | Rethinking the role of social security indevelopment

Bachelett, M. (2011) Social Protection Floor for a Fair and Inclusive Globalisation: Report ofthe Advisory Group, ILO/WHOwww.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_165750/lang--en/index.htm

Progress for the poor - Lane Kenworthy, 2011Book | Background

Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) (2010) 21st Century Welfare, Cm 7193, London:TSO http://www.dwp.gov.uk/consultations/2010/21st-century-welfare/

Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) (2010) Universal Credit: Welfare that works, Cm7957, London TSO http://www.dwp.gov.uk/welfare-reform/legislation-and-keydocuments/universal-credit/

Understanding Universal Credit. - Royston, Sam1 sam.royston@childrenssociety.org.uk,2012

Article | Background

Journal of Social PolicyJournal | Background | 'The low road to basic income? Tax-benefit integration in the UK'

Dean, H. (2008) 'Imagining a eudaimonic ethic of social security', in Bradshaw, J. (ed.)Happiness and Social Security, FISS/Intersentia. [copy on Moodle]

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Citizenship and Social Security - Raymond Plant, 2005-02-02Article | Background

Tondani, D. (2000) Universal Basic Income and Negative Income Tax: Two different ways ofthinking redistribution, MPRA paper 7016 http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7016/

Secure and Free: 5+ steps to make the desirable, feasible - M Orton, 2015Document | Background

A model for universal social security coverage: The experience of the BRICS countries -Mridula Ghai, 2015-07

Article | Background

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